kmhess writes “The Vinland map, purchased by Yale University and displayed in its Library, was supposed to prove the Vikings had been to America hundreds of years before Columbus. Unfortutately, it was a forgery.
Last night, PBS’s NOVA had an interesting show about how cartographic detectives proved this was a clever fake, and who might have created it.”
Why do we need a map?
I would think that L’Anse aux Meadows would be concrete proof enough.
Chinese
Columbus has lots of competition. If the vikings did not beat him to North America there is some evidence that the Chinese did. There is a book out called, “1421 : The Year China Discovered America“